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Academic Info:  African American Studies Links to a variety of information with online texts and links to information on Martin Luther King, Jr., slavery, the Civil War, the civil rights movement and more.

African/African-American Reference  Valuable links from the Internet Public Library.

Black Web Portal  Large collection of links with a search engine and subject categories.

Gateway to African American History  Directory of links from Department of State, International Information Programs

Libraries and Museums  (many of these sites have online collections and digital resources)
American Memory  Collections of photographs, sound recordings, photos, movies, and digitized documents from the Library of Congress's Americana Collections.  Numerous collections have valuable information on African American studies.  Three multi-format digital exhibits are especially good:
                                                                    African American Odyssey
                                                                    The African American Mosaic
                                                                    African American Perspectives
Other useful collections of African American history from American Memory can be found here.

Amistad Research Center  Library of manuscripts at Tulane University that strives to preserve African-American and ethnic history and culture.  Includes numerous digitized documents.
Center for Black Music Research  The center is devoted to research, preservation and dissemination of information on black music.  A discussion board, bookstore and links to information on black music are available. 
Documenting the American South  A collection of sources on the literature, culture and history in the American south from the colonial period through the early 20th century.  It includes North American Slave Narratives and The Church in the Southern Black Community, as well as other projects with information relevant to African-American studies.
Dred Scott Digital Project  Digital images and transcriptions of 85 original documents from the Dred and Harriet Scott court cases tried in St. Louis.   In addition to the documents, the site also provides a brief chronology and links for further information.
National Civil Rights Museum 
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting people of African descent.  The center provides digital collections, online exhibitions and multimedia samplers.  
Smithsonian:  African American History and Culture  Links to sites from Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations concerned with African-American History. 

General Sites
Africans in America  Online guide to the PBS program on America's journey through slavery.
Afro American Almanac  Information on all aspects of African American studies.
Archives of African American Music and Culture
Black Facts Online  A searchable database of information on African-American history.
Black History Database  Another searchable database of information on African-American history.  
Kwanza Information Center
Voices of the Civil Rights Era  Audio archives of historic speeches.

Associations/Organizations
African American Heritage Preservation Foundation
African American Literature and Culture Society
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
International Association of African American Music
NAACP
Nation of Islam
National Society of Black Engineers
National Urban League
Organization of Black Designers

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Last Update: December 12, 2005